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Cascade
Power plant · Oil
Key facts
Power plant · Oilran 0% of 2025 Standby- Capacity
- Capacity: sourceEIA-860M · Open licenseMW
- Commissioned
- 1951
- Net generation, 2025
- 31 MWh
- Grid
- 69 kV to ITC Midwest LLC (MISO)
- Location
- Dubuque County, Iowa
- Operated by
- Cascade Municipal Utilities - (IA)SourceEIA-860M Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory
Operations
- Net generation, 2025
- 31
MWh - Fuel burned, 2025
- 266
MMBtu - Capacity factor, 2025
- 0.1
% - Heat rate, 2025
- 8,581
Btu/kWh
| Year | Net generation (MWh) | Fuel burned (MMBtu) | Capacity factor | Heat rate (Btu/kWh) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | 266 | 0.1% | 8,581 |
| 2024 | 73 | 719 | 0.1% | 9,849 |
| 2023 | 3 | 28 | 0.0% | 9,333 |
| 2022 | 50 | 468 | 0.1% | 9,360 |
| 2021 | 76 | 773 | 0.1% | 10,171 |
| 2020 | 28 | 295 | 0.0% | 10,536 |
| 2019 | 43 | 412 | 0.1% | 9,581 |
| 2018 | 15 | 179 | 0.0% | 11,933 |
| 2017 | 66 | 676 | 0.1% | 10,242 |
| 2016 | 26 | 271 | 0.0% | 10,423 |
| 2015 | 10 | 111 | 0.0% | 11,100 |
| 2014 | 11 | 117 | 0.0% | 10,636 |
| 2013 | 17 | 174 | 0.0% | 10,235 |
| 2012 | 21 | 255 | 0.0% | 12,143 |
| 2011 | 97 | 854 | 0.1% | 8,804 |
| 2010 | 32 | 252 | 0.1% | 7,875 |
| 2009 | 30 | 291 | 0.1% | 9,700 |
| 2008 | 36 | 386 | 0.1% | 10,722 |
| 2007 | 126 | 1,216 | 0.2% | 9,651 |
| 2006 | 65 | 660 | 0.1% | 10,154 |
| 2005 | 79 | 767 | 0.1% | 9,711 |
| 2004 | 272 | 2,745 | 0.4% | 10,092 |
| 2003 | 477 | 4,479 | 0.8% | 9,390 |
| 2002 | 158 | 1,723 | 0.2% | 10,905 |
| 2001 | 579 | 4,162 | 0.9% | 7,188 |
How these are worked out
Net generation and fuel burned are the monthly figures EIA publishes in its bulk electricity file, from the plant's Form 923 reports; a year is the sum of its months. Capacity factor is a full year's net generation over today's nameplate capacity times the hours in that year (8,784 in a leap year), so a plant uprated or partly retired since reads against its current size; heat rate is fuel burned over net generation, for plants that burn fuel. A year with fewer than twelve months stated has no capacity factor, and a value outside the plausible range is left blank rather than shown. By month, the charts apply the same rules to each month's own hours and fuel.